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Dominic Lavelle
London
About Dominic
Over 15 years’ experience as a UK plc Main Board Director; Finance Director/CFO of 7 UK plc’s in both permanent roles and turnaround/restructuring projects.
• Resulting in thorough and successful experience of a comprehensive set of challenging Board situations, in addition to “business-as-usual”, as follows:
o strategic reviews;
o investing to drive long-term profitable growth;
o investing to increase efficiency and profitability; targeted cost-cutting;
o business acquisitions and disposals;
o debt and equity raising;
o global tax compliance and strategy (including transfer pricing);
o bid defence;
o CEO change; recruiting and building senior and functional teams;
o implementation of significant new IT systems;
o large-scale business and functional reorganisations and turnarounds;
o rescue financial restructurings; administrations and pre-packs.
• Across several business sectors: technology and services, retail, building, construction, support services, property (agency, management, valuation, investment, development), leisure, care home and insurance.
• International: SDL, Mothercare, Laura Ashley.
• Member of the: ICAEW; Institute for Turnaround (IfT).
• NED experience: 2 years at Bluestone Resorts Limited, a 5* holiday resort under bank ownership.
• Charity Trustee experience: Riders for Health (2003-2007); Friends of Craufurdland (2017-)
Dominic's Career History
SDL plc
CFO
November 2013 - March 2018
• LSE quoted global content and language technology and services group: turnover £330m; 4,500 employees; market cap, £450m.
• Prior to joining in late, 2013, the group issued several profit warnings; share-price collapsed from 700p to 260p.
Key achievements
• Successful transition to a new business sector.
• Effectively managed immediate bank covenant waiver process.
• Re-built credibility with all stakeholders, share price recovery to >500p.
• Effectively guided the business through a CEO change in October 2015, working very closely with the Board and Exec Chairman.
• Led strategic review, finalised in Spring 2016; managed effective implementation of: targeted cost-cutting; disposal of 3 non-core businesses; investment in new business areas to drive sustained profitable growth, and; investment in infrastructure to increase cost efficiency.
Various restructuring/turnaround projects
CFO or CRO
September 2007 - October 2013
Alfred McAlpine plc
Group Finance Director
October 2003 - April 2007